And I thought I ruffled a few feathers in my blogging past! It appears that Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing for Guardian Newspapers, found a back issue of the British Better Homes and Gardens from 1938 and stumbled across a write-up about Hitler's chateau. He scanned the pages onto his website and blogged it.
Then he got into trouble with the magazine's editorial director and had to take it down for copyright/fair use reasons, after it had already spread all over the web. Waldman argues that the article should be online as a historical text that reflects the way that upper class Britian "fawned" over Hitler.
Of course, this news brouhaha gets picked up by a few major news organizations like The New York Times and Wired, and somehow I end up blogging about it, along with a million other people, according to Google.
Funny how news travels.
Posted by Julie Young at September 22, 2003 10:51 AM